Maidless in Mumbai

I am on top of things. I have a seriously stuck baby inside me, and a queue of people between my legs. But I am on top of things.

When career-driven reporter Anu Narain has her first baby, she has a plan for everything—except the maid. The baby poops, pisses, cries and feeds all day and has arrived without an instruction manual attached. Mom and mom-in-law move in and expect the maid to obey their commands like commandments. The maid thrives on zero kich-kich, two kid gloves and definitely not three memsahibs.

Will Anu ever become a working mom when her husband has become a shirking dad and her house a railway station where every maid is a passing train? Will Anu use wile and guile to make her maids stay and the moms leave? Or will she succumb to that strange Indian malaise called maidomania?

Hilarious, unapologetically honest and charming, this is the diary of a maidless Mumbai mom who dreams of only one thing—the perfect maid to live happily forever with.

**Contents and Sample Pages**